Improved hook for harness



j waited 51am ABNER WHITE, or MACON, GEORGIA.

Letters 'Potent No.- 100,226, dated February 22, 1870.

INIPIIROV'IIID HOOK IYEOR HARNESS.

The Schedule referred to n these vLetters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

-Be it known ythat I, ABNER WHITE, of Macon, iu the county of Bibb, and State of Georgia, have invented a certain 'Improvement in Hooks for Harness; and I.do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my'inventiou showing a section of the back-strap, to which the hook is to'be secured, showing also the plate of metal and the hook proper.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section showing all the parts above enumerated together with the button-headed stud, which secures the hook to the lmetallic plate, the relation of each of the `parts` to the other being clearly shown. y

Figure 3,is a transverse vertical section showing how the head upon the stud projects over and upon the hook, and holds it in position.

Corresponding letters denote corresponding parts in all ofthe figures. l

This invention relates to that class of devices known as back-strap or harness-hooks; -and It consists incombining and arranging the parts of `which it is made, as will b e more'fully described hereinafter.

A, in the drawings, refers to a section of the back strap of a harness, but which may also be supposed to representa section of 'a tug or any other portion of a harness, the length of which it is desirable to change with facility, and to which it is desirable to attach a hook.

B refers to a plate or sheet of metal, which is to be about equal in length to the vhook itself, and of a width about equal to that of the strap or portion of the harness to which it is to 'be attached. This plate of metal should be of suticient thickness to hold firmly the stud, which holds the hook; and it is to be attached by rivets or in some other manner to the strap A ofthe harness. n

O refers to the hook, the construction of which is clearly shown in figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The

' outer crooked end of this part is for the reception of the link of any chain which it may be desirable to attach to it, it being of about the usual form of hooks used for similar purposes. The inner tlattened end of this hook is to he reduced in thickness and extended in width sufficiently to admit of there being formed in it a series of slots or elongated openings, the length of whichis to be sufficient to allow the head of the but-y ton-headed stud D to pass through them, while their width is only equal to the width of such head, or only enough greater to allow such head to pass freely through them.

D refers to the button-headed stud, the diameter of the rounded portion of which is about equal to the width ot' its head, and long enough to pass tlrrough the plate B, and be secured thereto either by riveting or in any other suitable manner, and yet leave a space between the under surface of the head and the outer` surface of the plate equal to the thickness of that portion of the hook through which it passes.

It will be seen that as a consequence of the arrangement of the parts of which this device is'oomand passing it iu either direction until another slot or A aperture is brought over the' stud, it may be slipped down thereon, and turned 'back to its original position, when it will be prevented from separating from the stud by means of the portions of its head which pro-y ject over upon the face of the hook.

Having thus described my invention,v

Vhat I claim, and desire to4 secure by Letters Patent, is

A hook for use in connection with harnesses, co'm- 'bining in its construction a plate of metal, B, hook C,

Aand button-headed stud D, arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

his ANBER WHITE.

mark. Witnesses:

HUGH J. KINCHEN. R. H. THOMPSON. 

